Let's Play!: Poems About Sports and Games from Around the World - Hardcover

Chatterjee, Debjani

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847803709 ISBN 13: 9781847803702

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2014

Synopsis

Featuring a variety of leisure activities from around the globe, these lively poems familiarize children with sports like cricket, soccer, American football, baseball, basketball, running, relay race, tobogganing, skating, swimming, diving, netball, pole vault, shot put, kung fu, judo, boxing, tennis, table tennis, kite flying, hockey, surfing, riding, and horse racing, as well as games such as skipping, swinging, computer games, Scrabble, chess, and Snakes and Ladders. Vibrant illustrations portray children and adults of many different cultures enjoying pastimes from around the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Debjani Chatterjee has written and edited over 50 books, including Animal Antics, Masala, and The Elephant-Headed God and Other Hindu Tales, selected for Children's Books of the Year. The recipient of an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University and an MBE for services to literature, she lives in Sheffield, U.K. Brian D'Arcy is an Anglo-Irish poet who has contributed to many anthologies of children's poetry and has had two collections published. The winner of an Edward Lear Centenary Limerick Competition, he lives in Sheffield, U.K. Born in the U.K. and raised in Iran, Shirin Adl studied illustration at Loughborough University, going on to win the Hallmark M&S Talented Designer Award. The illustrator of Pea Boy: Stories from Iran and Ramadan Moon, she lives in Oxford, U.K.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 3–6—This picture book compendium of sports and game poetry doesn't attempt to comprehensively detail every sport from around the world. Rather, as explained in the author's note, it simply highlights a variety of activities and sports, from video and board games to basketball, hockey, and baseball. Readers will enjoy these varied poems (free verse, concrete, haiku, and more) organized by theme. Educators can use this to their advantage by guiding readers to talk about how and why the poems are grouped. For example, soccer is placed on a spread with American football, and "Snakes and Ladders" is immediately followed by "Computer Game." The collagelike illustrations feature male and female characters as well as a diverse representation of the cultures from all over the globe. The book closes with a glossary that briefly explains each of the sports and games. This solid addition to poetry collections has potential for sparking discussion.—Andy Plemmons, David C. Barrow Elementary, Athens, GA

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847803709
• ISBN 13: 9781847803702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 56
• Editor: D'Arcy Brian
• Illustrator: Adl Shirin